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Speaking of DST, Mike Moore is. Rockingham County Today, Mike Moore 03.02.26 Hey, I'm acquainted with two folk from yesterday in the Birthday Club, whatyaknow!
Then there's Brother Steve, he's always good to let us know about time changes. Light & Truth Radio Network
Then there's Brother Steve, he's always good to let us know about time changes. Light & Truth Radio Network
I agree. But much as I enjoy radio tangents, we could have 1110 comments on daylight saving time with hundreds of comments by one prolific commentator.
My worthless opinion is that most Americans dislike changing clocks twice a year, so we should unify as a nation and a world and end all bi-annual time changes. Where’s the UN when they’re really needed? 😀
I used to listen to to a country station 54 years ago from Danville, Illinois on the Indiana border. Cracked up when the dj would say, It’s 8:14 in Illinois and 9:14 in Indiana. Yet in that era (1970s) his double time check made sense.
WBT!
The double time check still makes sense. The Illinois-Indiana line is still the line between central and eastern time.
Again, I say if standard time is so unsatisfactory, just advance the time zones by 30 minutes and leave them there. We could see if Canada and Mexico would be willing to follow suit, but these days, they might not be willing to do something just because the US does it.
I'm retired and the only places I have to be on time are church on Sunday (which for our congregation doesn't start until 1 pm, we "borrow" someone else's church and have to wait until they wind up) and the comic book store when they open at 10 am on Wednesday, as my son is an avid collector and that's the day the new books drop. I well remember near-sunrise drop-offs at school and pickups at dusk during portions of the year, ditto work commutes, and those institutions can't easily change their operating hours from season to season.
I remember being up (literally) in the Crossville, TN area, which is the timezone line for slow Time (Central) and below them is Fast Time (Eastern), Rockwood, etc. The DJ said, 11:06 on the mountain, 12:06 in the valley. This was normal, due to the line, etc.
I never realized, until I looked it up just now, that Crossville was in the Central Time Zone. I though it split between Crossville and Cookeville. I suppose I had it in the back of my mind that Crossville is in the Knoxville ADI (indeed, it is the COL for WBXX), therefore had to be Eastern, but Fentress County is likewise in the Knoxville ADI but in the CTZ.
Obviously ADIs don't necessarily obey time zone boundaries. Fun fact, one county in the Lexington (!) ADI is in the CTZ, Russell County. Wayne County switched to the ETZ in 2000.
Through aggressive promotion, as well as providing in-state news and content much preferred by Kentuckians, Lexington has blown out its market about as far as it can. In some areas (such as, I'm assuming, Russell County), cable, satellite, or OTT would be the only feasible way of making it there. There are a handful of counties that might still be up for grabs, but I have to imagine that Knoxville, Tri-Cities, and Charleston-Huntington don't want to lose any more counties than they already have. C-H took a huge hit when they lost Athens County (OH) to Columbus.
Something I forgot to ask and please pardon my ignorance, but what do the abrevs ADI and CDZ mean?
Just to reset the table on what this thread is actually about — especially for folks outside the Charlotte market. Since 1110 doesn’t have a stream, the only way to hear this right now is the old-fashioned way: an actual radio.
After more than 103 years on the air, WBT 1110 AM has now spent 54 days running a transition loop.
Since early January, the big 50-kilowatt clear-channel signal has basically been playing instrumental jazz, the hourly “WBT, Charlotte” legal ID, and two promos telling listeners the talk format moved to 107.9 FM.
Those promos say:
“Charlotte’s on the move and so is your station. News/Talk WBT now at 107.9 FM. News, talk, traffic, weather, sports — live and local. Wherever you are, we’re there too. 107.9 FM WBT, your city, your station.”
and
“No matter where you are — Belmont, Ballantyne, Lake Norman, Lake Wylie — WBT’s loud and clear on 107.9 FM. News, talk, traffic, weather, sports — live and local. 107.9 FM WBT, your city, your station.”
That’s the entire playlist.
Jazz. Promo. Legal ID. Repeat.
It’s basically the radio version of being put on hold… and nobody’s picked up for 54 days.
For now, that loop keeps rolling across the 1110 signal while whatever comes next for the AM side is still somewhere between the drawing board and the transmitter site.
After more than 103 years on the air, WBT 1110 AM has now spent 54 days running a transition loop.
Since early January, the big 50-kilowatt clear-channel signal has basically been playing instrumental jazz, the hourly “WBT, Charlotte” legal ID, and two promos telling listeners the talk format moved to 107.9 FM.
Those promos say:
“Charlotte’s on the move and so is your station. News/Talk WBT now at 107.9 FM. News, talk, traffic, weather, sports — live and local. Wherever you are, we’re there too. 107.9 FM WBT, your city, your station.”
and
“No matter where you are — Belmont, Ballantyne, Lake Norman, Lake Wylie — WBT’s loud and clear on 107.9 FM. News, talk, traffic, weather, sports — live and local. 107.9 FM WBT, your city, your station.”
That’s the entire playlist.
Jazz. Promo. Legal ID. Repeat.
It’s basically the radio version of being put on hold… and nobody’s picked up for 54 days.
For now, that loop keeps rolling across the 1110 signal while whatever comes next for the AM side is still somewhere between the drawing board and the transmitter site.
K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
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It's funny you mention Crossville. I'm the weather guy on the 3B Media stations there. It's interesting to say the least: two time zones and two forecast areas (the Plateau and the Valley).
Good reset. For the sake of 'BT and radio in general (especially AM) I wish the above weren't the case, but unfortunately, it is. That's about the size of it.
Wow, what about that! Ya got 'em right, but I've heard them pronounce it like pla (as in apple) taw (as in taught without the last t).
K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
Well, speaking of Canada and DST and states not being allowed to go DST year-round, comes word from the New York Times (by way of Radio World, which unlocked the article for us all) that British Columbia is going to do precisely that, starting on Sunday:
Apparently, unknown to all of us, the Yukon Territory did so six years ago. (I am especially disappointed that Paul Walker, Jr. didn't mention that.) They are going to call it simply Pacific Time, and the province will be aligned with neighboring Alberta and U.S. states Mountain Standard Time in the winter, and with California, Washington, Oregon and other Pacific Standard Time regions the rest of the year.
Being that far north, I will be interested to see what time sunrise will be in the winter months and if there will be complaints about same.